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6 Geeky Wine Racks

6 Geeky Wine Racks

Are you a wine lover and a techie audiophile? This modern and functional rack looks like an old-school audio jack, perfect for those with the ultimate home theater system or just an appreciation for great sound. Instead of hiding away in your kitchen, this wine rack works in your living room next to your television.

Make your guests exercise their brains before they get their first drink with the Vino Vault Wine Cryptex.

To make this extra fun, turn a drink of wine into a full-on treasure hunt, where the treasure is — you guessed it — a glass of wine from the bottle being held hostage. The bottle is locked in tight until the proper code has been entered, freeing the ambrosia of the gods for all to drink.

We recommend having a few open bottles on hand to encourage creativity — and to keep your guests from mutiny.

his wine rack is the ultimate wine-meets-tech rack. Most wine connoisseurs keep paper logs of extensive spreadsheets to record every bit of information they have about their wine. Now imagine replacing all that tracking information with a single RFID chip built right in to the wine rack, letting you track its every move.

The WineM Wine Rack is the brainchild of ThingM, and this wine rack is truly a stunner. The wine rack dynamically organizes your wine so that with the push of a button, it highlights the wines that meet exactly what you're looking for. Say you want to search for all the wines that you own from 2003 in the Napa Valley that cost over $50. Simply enter that criteria into the handheld browser, and voila! Your wine rack highlights all the wines that meet your criteria.

This wine rack comes with a built-in security system in case one of your dinner guests becomes just a little too fond of one of the wines in your collection. Thanks to the tags built right into the wine rack, you can set an alarm and have a text or email sent if someone tries to sneak off with your favorite bottle of pinot noir.

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Transformer Wine Rack

This is the geekiest wine rack we've ever seen. It holds 32 bottles of your favorite vintage and will without a doubt shout your geek love to the world. This half-ton robot will not only defend the universe but your wine collection as well, definitely making you the envy of all of your friends (and quite possibly the bane of your housemates).

The Transformer wine rack's creator put it up for sale on Craigslist with an asking price of $7,000. The ad has since been taken down.

Does your idea of a great fall night include a bottle of cabernet and a puzzle? We've got a fun way to showcase your favorite vintage.

These puzzle piece wine racks are a fun and funky way to show that you're a wine connoisseur but still a geek at heart. The best part? The puzzle pieces fit together so that as your wine collection grows, your wine rack grows right along with it. Start with a few pieces in your kitchen, and expand to an entire wall if you like.

Who doesn't love Lego bricks? If you don't, please go to your nearest toy store and revisit your childhood as soon as humanly possible — or better yet, get some of the larger-than-life Lego storage boxes. You can use the storage boxes themselves to store your wine, but you know what's more fun and way less adult? Building your own wine rack out of the Lego storage boxes.

See that giant Lego head? That's also storage, which would make an excellent way to hold your bottle of wine before it's ready to be served (sans ice, of course).

If the wine flows along with your creativity, maybe you'll find something else to make with all those Legos lying around.

Price: Approximately $37

Wine lovers obsess over pairing the right vino with the perfect meal. And they're even more obsessive about how their wine collection is stored. That said, finding the perfect wine rack for someone who's also a geek is no easy task. We've scoured the web to find the most fantastically geeky wine racks for the oenophile (aka the wine lover or grape nut) in your life.

From the super high-tech to the low-tech and ultra-geeky, from robots to RFIDs, there's a wine rack out there for whatever gets your geek on. So pour yourself a glass of your favorite two-buck chuck or Chateau Margaux — or your favorite cocktail — and find the wine rack that matches your inner geek.

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